Qian Li

“Those who choose to stay are reportedly required to spend six days at the office and clock more than 80-hour weeks — draconian conditions that have become table stakes among workers at top AI firms”
It is true for many people I talked to.

GitHub - runablehq/dbos-starter-template: This is a template app built with DBOS and Hono. This is a template app built with DBOS and Hono. Contribute to runablehq/dbos-starter-template development by creating an account on GitHub.

Community contributions are the best! I want to share this awesome DBOS Hono starter template created by our user:
github.com/runablehq/db...

It shows how to add durable workflows, retries, and background tasks to your stack just using Postgres + TypeScript. No app refactoring needed.

I think they're used mostly for marketing content. Many people (like me) are allergic to markety/salesy pitches.

The new Java features are definitely compelling! I'm curious what new features you like the most? You're right, for broader adoption, we aim to maintain compatibility with Java 11 for now. Luckily, most of the heavy lifting in DBOS is interacting with the database.

Java support is coming soon to DBOS!
I almost forgot how much fun (and pain) comes with statically typed languages.

Join our user group to try it out early. We’d love your feedback!

I think that’s why people in the AI world are so obsessed with “human in the loop” (this is like the top 1 most frequent phrase for any marketing material). Because you can’t solve the issues without contacting an actual person.

Hope we can still have coffee chats at Philz!

I’d love to see an overview on debugging concurrency too. I see a lot of users struggling with asyncio. A common issue is someone calling a sync and blocking method from an async method, which stalls the entire event loop. It’s really hard to debug..

A big red billboard saying “My boss really wants you to know we’re an AI company” - Redis

Okay now I know that Redis is an AI company (just like everyone else).

I personally found the same and I hope to have more tech discussions here! I just chatted with someone whose company’s main revenue 💰 comes from outreach and engagement on X (I was shocked). There is still a close circle of tech influencers and VCs that are very active there.

Happy weekend! I built my first voice agent this week and will present it at a meetup on Monday: lu.ma/o19i7hys

I'm traveling to San Francisco multiple times a week, and I'll break my record by going every day in the next few days. The drive is long, but worth it if more people know @dbos.dev

I think security and sandboxing execution will become more important. Because you can’t really trust code that can modify itself 🤔

UW-Madison has some of the strongest database and systems researchers! For example, @xiangyaoyu.bsky.social @abigalekim.bsky.social and tli2.github.io and a lot more...

I’m also here 🙌 Great panel discussions!

Exactly this 😂 So I usually hand roll my own clients for load testing.

Awesome!

Heading to the #DevGuild conference today! The lineup looks great. Looking forward to the talks and conversations.

If you're around, I would love to meet up! feel free to ping me.

I guess the company is large enterprise?

Looks friendly. Is it a jewelry store that sells rings?

Yes, you can implement actor methods as DBOS workflows that handle each event durably. This allows you to achieve reliable actor coordination via event-passing without managing any external queues or orchestrators.

Happy to chat more about your use case if you're interested!

Thank you! Exactly, I think this workflow-as-code allows dynamic execution, which is more ergonomic than defining DAGs (well, I'm very biased haha).

Looks like it's mostly for infrastructure-as-code (deployment at the container-level), not for durable workflows within the application?

A big shout-out to @devhawk.net and Chuck for driving this major update.

I'll be updating our production subscription service with this new TypeScript version soon and writing a blog post about the experience. Stay tuned!

GitHub - dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts: Lightweight Durable TypeScript Workflows Lightweight Durable TypeScript Workflows. Contribute to dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts development by creating an account on GitHub.

Just released DBOS TypeScript V3! I really like the new decorator-less API and its smooth compatibility with JavaScript. The updated DataSource API makes it easy to connect to multiple databases in a single app.

Check it out and give a ⭐ on GitHub: github.com/dbos-inc/dbo...

Take care! 🙏

GitHub - jarulraj/periodic-table: A Periodic Table of System Design Principles A Periodic Table of System Design Principles. Contribute to jarulraj/periodic-table development by creating an account on GitHub.

Today I stumbled upon a fun paper on system design: github.com/jarulraj/per...

I shared it on HN under its original title, "A Periodic Table of System Design Principles". But most of the comments ended up debating the name, so the author updated it to "Elements of System Design". Classic HN 😂

I think Claude code can already dig into git history. Wonder if they’ll add this as a new feature

Ohh if the authors joined, I’d also like to hear the most weird reviewer comments they received 😂

GitHub has been weird today. I keep randomly getting rainbow unicorns. 😂 Looks like some outages are happening www.githubstatus.com

A new Infra Pod episode just landed 💙